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Injury First Aid - The RICE Method
By Patrick Milroy on 30/07/2002 21:17:30
If you get injured, you need to take immediate (and we mean immediate) action. Here's how
can ease apart scarred, healing tissues while the cooling effect continues to provide capilliary contraction and prevent further bleeding. Ice is the most valuable, yet least used and understood, method of healing sports injuries.C is for Compression
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Bodyworks: Black Toenail (Sub-Ungual Haematoma)
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 14:12:57
How to recognise it, how to overcome it
bravery, let your doctor perform the above operation! They may then prescribe antibiotics to prevent infection, and you can take paracetamol for pain.Can you run through it?Yes, to an extent, though pain will prevent you from overdoing it. If you don
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Bodyworks: March Fracture
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 15:20:57
How to recognise it, how to overcome it
caused the injury is out.Medical treatmentThis is as much psychological as physical you need constant reassurance that time (probably about six weeks) will heal the injury. A plaster cast is rarely required. Biomechanical gait analysis may prevent
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Bodyworks: Achilles Tendinitis
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 13:31:15
How to recognise it, how to overcome it
tendinitis and gait analysis with a video will show whether your pronation needs treatment.What else could it be?Other more severe injuries to the tendon, lower calf muscle tears or simple heel tab bruising can all produce pain within the tendon
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Bodyworks: Ankle Sprain
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 13:48:57
How to recognise it, how to overcome it
UAN:204 Article type:--SymptomsYou must have experienced ankle sprains before an awkward footplant, followed by a sickening pain as your ankle twists inward and the agony of any further movement.SignsFollowing the injury, rapid bruising
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Bodyworks: Achilles Rupture - Partial
By Patrick Milroy on 28/05/2002 21:26:52
How to recognise it, how to overcome it
prevent and treat all minor TA problems. Prevention should include: 1 A Sorbothane-type heel raise, lessening the strain on the tendon and softening the landing forces; 2 Ensuring that the heel tabs on your shoes don’t press on your TA when your toes
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Bodyworks: Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 13:41:57
How to recognise it, how to overcome it
UAN: 201 Article type:--The majority of people possess both anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments, which form an X-shaped structure through the middle of the joint, their function being to prevent fore and aft movement of the tibia on the femur
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Shinsplints - How To Beat them
By Patrick Milroy on 04/06/2000 15:57:59
The body's components, and how they become damaged
of the lower leg (see ‘An Ounce of Prevention’ below). Typical recovery time is two to four weeks.If the injury doesn’t respond to self-treatment and rest in two to four weeks, see a podiatrist, who may recommend custom-made orthoses to control overpronation
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Bodyworks: Bunion (Hallux valgus)
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 14:12:57
How to recognise it, how to overcome it
operations have their proponents; none prevents some disability in terms of mechanical efficiency, but all should leave you pain-free! Meanwhile, anti-inflammatory drugs, cortisone injections, mobilisation and exercises will give some relief.Can you run
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Bodyworks: Ingrowing Toenail
By Patrick Milroy on 05/06/2000 15:20:57
How to recognise it, how to overcome it
bed is a drastic but definitive solution.Can you run through it? You may be able to run if you wear shoes with plenty of toe space to prevent pressure and pain. You should definitely avoid racing until the condition has been cleared up. Without
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